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Seven Sermons to the Dead and Already Begun and Is Expected to Last for at Least His Very first Mandala, Illustrated on the Front Cover, Three Years a semi-annual publication of the Winter 2005–2006 philem n foundation Volume 1, Issue 2 JUNG HISTORY: A Semi-Annual Publication of the CONTENTS Philemon Foundation, Volume 1, Issue 2 FROM THE UNCOLLECTED JUNG : JUNG IN OXFORD, 1938 : PAGE THREE The Philemon Foundation was founded at the end of Sonu Shamdasani 2003, and since this time, has made critical contribu - SYSTEMA MUNDITOTIUS AND SEVEN tions to a number of ongoing projects preparing for SERMONS : SYMBOLIC COLLABORATORS publication the still unpublished works of C. G. Jung. IN JUNG’S CONFRONTATION WITH THE The Foundation is grateful to its donors who have DEAD : PAGE SIX made this work possible. Jung History, which will Barry Jeromson appear semi-annually, will provide accounts of some TINA KELLER’S ANALYSES WITH C. G. JUNG of the ongoing research sup ported by the Philemon AND TONI WOLFF : PAGE ELEVEN Foundation and other news. In addition to schol - Wendy Swan ars funded by the Philemon Foundation, Jung History will present reports of significant historical research AN INTRODUCTION TO CAROL SAWYER and publications in the field. In recent years, an BAUMANN (1897–1958) : PAGE SIXTEEN increasing amount of new historical research on C. G. Amy Colwell Bluhm Jung has been undertaken, based on the study of hitherto unknown primary materials. However, the SOME CRITICAL ISSUES ABOUT JUNGIAN publication of such research has been widely dis - ANALYSIS : PAGE TWENTY persed, which has led to the desirability of a publica - Vicente de Moura tion to gather together such work and make it better known. Jung History sets out to fill this need. Jung IN MEMORIAM : PAGE TWENTY-FOUR History will be freely distributed to donors, collabo - PATRONS AND COLLABORATING rating institutions, and interested readers. To receive INSTITUTIONS : PAGE TWENTY-FIVE each issue in print form, please send an e- mail to editorial @philemonfoundation.org. Jung History will also be available for download at www.philemonfoundation.org. For further infor - mation concerning the Philemon Foundation, please send an e-mail to info @philemonfoundation.org. The Editors — Sonu Shamdasani, Editor Wendy Swan, Editor Stephen A. Martin, Consulting Editor Eugene Taylor, Consulting Editor Copyright for the articles in Jung History remains with the authors. Cover image: Systema Munditotius (The System of All Worlds) painted by C. G. Jung, 1916. © Erbengemeinschaft C. G. Jung, reproduced with permission. : from the president : page one WELCOME Like high alpine mists , the scope mology and the development of Analytical Psychology. of genius can often shroud the true historical land - Wendy Swan fills another important historical gap scape that lies behind it. Such is the case for C. G. with her paper about Tina Keller, an early analysand Jung. The immensity of his intellectual and psycho - and subsequent colleague of Jung, whose use of logical achievement has engendered, since portions techniques of active imagination in her personal and of it have been published, lively discussion, astute professional work illuminates the critical importance interpretation and not a little bit of controversy. played by this methodology in the practice of analy - This shroud is what undoubtedly prompted Sonu sis. Amy Bluhm explores the life of another of Jung’s Shamdasani in Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: less well known but highly gifted analysands and col - The Dream of a Science to write on the first page of this leagues, Carol Sawyer Baumann. Baumann chose remarkable volume: “... the very proliferation of courageously to “follow her own nature” by eschew - ‘Jungs’ leads one to question whether everyone (who ing conventional married life to pursue her own speaks of Jung) could possibly be talking about the individuation in Zurich, analyzing with Jung and same figure” 1 The discernment of the towering becoming an integral part of the Jungian community. reality that stands behind these clouds of projection Finally, Vicente de Moura, curator of the Picture is at the heart of the mission of the Philemon Archive at the Jung Institute in Zurich, poses, among Foundation. In service to this mission, and in addition other questions a singularly compelling one: “How to preparing for publication the accurate, scholarly did Jung himself work with patients.” Against the editions of Jung’s unpublished work free from a backdrop of Jung’s encouragement of his analysands multiplicity of Jungs, Jung History was created. As the to paint, the products of which form the basis of semi-annual organ of the Philemon Foundation its the Picture Archive, de Moura makes an insightful attendant aim is to contribute to the evolution of attempt at an answer. With the publication of the New Jung Scholarship founded upon accurate this second issue of Jung History, the Philemon historical research as opposed to theoretical debate. Foundation adds to its significant progress since the To this end the current issue is an evolution of our Spring of 2005 when the first issue appeared. Since first. In it and in all succeeding issues smaller then we are pleased to report major advances on a pieces of unpublished Jung will be included so that number of fronts. In November 2005 formal notifi - in addition to the volumes of the Philemon Series cation came from The Andrew W. Mellon that require a far greater amount of time to reach Foundation that the Philemon Foundation had been the reading public, a steady flow of new Jung mate - awarded a $40,000 matching grant to fund the rial will be insured. Shamdasani’s piece on Jung’s transcription of over 100 unpublished manuscripts partic ipation at the Tenth International Medical and seminars by C. G. Jung housed in the Jung Congress for Psychotherapy, held at Oxford, Archives at the ETH in Zurich. This award is of England in the fateful year of 1938, just before the the greatest importance as it is not only a significant outbreak of the Second World War, inaugurates vote of confidence in our mission but also revives this commitment. Our other articles continue the meaningful relationship between the publication our focus of presenting material about critical, often of Jung and the Mellon family that originally funded overlooked aspects of Jung History. In his article, the Bollingen Foundation and the publication of Barry Jeromson raises to awareness the seminal rela - Jung’ Collected Works. The transcription process has tionship between Jung’s Seven Sermons to the Dead and already begun and is expected to last for at least his very first mandala, illustrated on the front cover, three years. In addition to coordinating this impor - entitled Systema Munditotius (The System of All tant task that will significantly aid the broader edi - Worlds). For as much attention as the Seven Sermons torial process, the Philemon Foundation must also has received, the inverse is true about this remark - meet the challenge of raising the $40,000 in match - able painted image. Jeromson demonstrates that ing funds required by this grant. Another impor - both of these creations are inextricably related, 1 Shamdasani, Sonu. Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream equally vital components of Jung’s own psychocos - of a Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, p. 1. : jung history 1: 2 tant event occurred almost at the same time. After Philemon Series. Ernst Falzeder has completed his work two years of negotiation the Philemon Foundation and on the Children’s Dream Seminar and that fascinating the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of seminar is ready for publication. Angela Graf-Nold Medicine at University College London have con - continues to make steady progress on Jung’s ETH cluded an agreement whereby the Philemon Readership Lectures and we are looking forward to the manu - in Jung History has been established, initially for ten script of the first volume of that long series to be years. Dr. Sonu Shamdasani, General Editor of the ready sometime in 2006. In the last year alone she Philemon Foundation, will occupy this endowed has recovered twenty-eight hitherto unknown tran - chair. It will be the vehicle by which, with the back - scripts of these lectures by Jung. Finally, and most ing of the world’s foremost institution for the study importantly, the Red Book, edited by Sonu Shamdasani, of the history of medicine and psychiatry, Dr. is moving closer to formal publication. If all goes Shamdasani will pursue his editorial and scholarly well, we are expecting a 2007 publication date. On work, train a new generation of historians of Jung the docket for the not so distant future, we are lin - and collaborate with a diverse group of scholars to ing up additional seminars and manuscripts for the develop the field of Jung History. Over the long editorial process including some of Jung’s English term, the institutional support of the Centre will and German seminars and a completed unpublished greatly assist the Philemon Foundation to complete text on alchemy. Our donor base is broadening. its mission. Our scholar editors have also been With the Mellon Grant, we have now received sig - very busy this year. Ann Lammers, Adrian Cunningham nificant support from four public and private foun - and Murray Stein have completed their editorial dations as well as hundreds of individual donors for work on the correspondence between Jung and which we are immensely grateful. We, at the Victor White, and its expected publication date is Philemon Foundation, look forward to the continua - 2006. It will be the first volume in the on-going tion of this encouraging trend. Finally, as Jung History was about to go to print, we were informed that the Executive Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), the credentialing organization representing Jungian analysts worldwide, had awarded the Philemon Foundation a grant to support our ongoing ETH Lecture project.
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